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Anonymous Thu May 1 04:56:02 2014 No.4838817 [DELETED]

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ITT books that we find deeply charming

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » Thu May 1 09:41:14 2014 No.4839697 File: 110 KB, 467x743, Jansson - Moominvalley in November.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu May 1 09:42:47 2014 No.4839706 I, Claudius To be honest I haven't finished it though.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 1 09:46:23 2014 No.4839718 The Fall A Clockwork Orange American Psycho I have bad taste in people

>>	Anonymous Thu May 1 09:50:43 2014 No.4839734 Calvino's Our Ancestors.

Anonymous Thu May 1 09:58:29 2014 No.4839764
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Made me realize that stuff written before 1950 might actually be good and well written, and that I was missing out on a shitload of good books outside of my fantasy comfort zone.
Still a pleb, but I'm on my way.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 1 11:10:35 2014 No.4839983 On Chesil Beach

>>	Anonymous Thu May 1 11:21:05 2014 No.4840017 >>4839764 How old were you when you read "The Importance of Being Earnest"?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 1 11:37:13 2014 No.4840068 >>4839983 Ian McEwan a shit He's everything wrong with British literature

>>	Anonymous Thu May 1 12:00:04 2014 No.4840137 >>4840068 How so? OCB is all I've read from him.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 1 12:23:07 2014 No.4840207 >>4840017 19. I know.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 1 12:55:07 2014 No.4840326 File: 36 KB, 510x680, 1398963307860.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I know, I'm a pleb

>>	Ω !dU891Xy672 Thu May 1 12:57:10 2014 No.4840334 >>4838817 This is my favorite short Steinbeck novel, as good as Cannery Row is.

Anonymous Thu May 1 14:22:04 2014 No.4840705
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>>4838817
>tfw your hot gf who liked you but was up-front about just using you for sex gave you a copy because your living situation reminded her of the guys in the book
>tfw nothing even close to that will happen to you ever again.

great book, OP

>>	Anonymous Thu May 1 14:27:14 2014 No.4840728 >>4840207 I'm 20. What's wrong with having read it at 19?

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>>	Anonymous Thu May 1 14:29:11 2014 No.4840741 >>4838817 Great taste, OP. Cannery Row is also one of my favorites.

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>>	Anonymous Thu May 1 14:42:03 2014 No.4840789 File: 1.51 MB, 1422x2159, MobyDickTonyMillionaireCoverPoster[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] That part where Starbuck tries to reason with Ahab gave me all the feels

>>	Anonymous Thu May 1 14:55:17 2014 No.4840828 File: 249 KB, 404x640, Moll Flanders.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The adventures of a mildly terrible but always amusing person. What's not to be charmed by?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 1 14:57:23 2014 No.4840834 >>4840207 I was just curious.

Anonymous Thu May 1 14:58:45 2014 No.4840836

>>4839764
>Made me realize that stuff written before 1950 might actually be good and well written, and that I was missing out on a shitload of good books outside of my fantasy comfort zone.

That's a great moment in any reader's life. For me it was Frankenstein, but Wilde is a great place to start.

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>>	Anonymous Thu May 1 15:01:51 2014 No.4840840 >>4840207 Admitting you are a pleb is the first step towards becoming a patrician. Sorry to use memays.

Anonymous Thu May 1 15:04:02 2014 No.4840845
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charming as fuck

>mina the ultimate fictional qt
>jonathan, seward, quincey, arthur and van helsing the ultimate fictional cool dudes
>the count the ultimate fictional host

>>	Anonymous Thu May 1 15:06:41 2014 No.4840860 >>4840845 Favorite novel of all time. You are one hundred percent correct in your character assessments.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 1 15:07:15 2014 No.4840863 >>4838817 >>4840730 Charming. >>4839718 >>4840789 Not charming. The chronicles of Narnia is my pick.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 1 15:10:09 2014 No.4840872 >>4840860 thank you good friend i just finished rereading it and it's just such a blast the whole way through

>>	Anonymous Thu May 1 15:10:49 2014 No.4840877 >>4840741 Not OP, but Cannery Row was so good it kind of spoiled other Steinbeck for me. Boy, was I in for a surprising tonal shift when I tried The Grapes of Wrath...

>>	Anonymous Thu May 1 15:11:39 2014 No.4840878 >>4840863 how can you not think moby dick is charming my pick is great expectations btw

>>	Anonymous Thu May 1 15:17:06 2014 No.4840898 >>4840326 Every time anon calls himself a pleb for mentioning something he likes, it turns out to be actually good shit. Shut the fuck up about the self-pity.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 1 15:18:14 2014 No.4840904 File: 973 KB, 500x213, no.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4840789 CAPTAIN MY CAPTAIN!

>>	Anonymous Thu May 1 15:20:55 2014 No.4840913 >>4840878 >Great Expectations Not sure I'd call it charming, more like IT RAPED MY SOUL OVER AND OVER. >dat Mrs Havisham Holy shit nigga... Bitch got raped and time stopped forever for her. That novel was the shizzle my drizzle.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 1 15:27:53 2014 No.4840936 >>4840913 I thought she just got abandoned? (Though I guess in that era it amounted to social ruin either way.)

>>	Anonymous Thu May 1 15:30:03 2014 No.4840950 >>4838817 such a wonderful book, OP. thumbs up for good taste. Cannery Row is better though.

Anonymous Thu May 1 15:31:37 2014 No.4840955
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>>4840936

You need to read between the lines my friend.

Why do you think she only has one shoe on? Why do you think everything stopped for her? Dude didn't just abandon her, he forcefully penetrated her and dumped her.

Not being married isn't social ruin, but getting raped is mental ruin.

Why do you think she raised the fruit of that rape to get back at men?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 1 15:33:10 2014 No.4840960 >>4840955 Good point! What a douche.

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Anonymous Thu May 1 15:48:12 2014 No.4841010 [SPOILER]

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It really captures the emotional situation of being twenty-something these days. Makes me nostalgic for when my friends weren't distributed to universities all over the state.

>>4840326
I liked it too.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 1 15:50:37 2014 No.4841018 pretty much all Jeeves and Wooster books

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Anonymous Thu May 1 16:05:53 2014 No.4841076

>>4840877
Well, I agree that Cannery Row was great, but honestly I'm not sure why you would expect all an author's books to have a similar tone? Steinbeck is basically broken up in to more "serious" books and less "serious" books. Grapes of Wrath isn't really like Cannery Row but it's still great.

Cannery Row and Tortilla Flat are my favorites, though. Few other books really have those sorts of feelings.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 1 16:13:13 2014 No.4841104 >>4841018 this too

>>	Anonymous Thu May 1 16:14:55 2014 No.4841107 File: 26 KB, 523x391, ok.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Brideshead Revisited

Anonymous Thu May 1 16:22:15 2014 No.4841127
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Read all the original Conan the Barbarian stories last summer. The plots are all pretty much the same, and the characters are one dimensional as all, but they managed to be entertaining. Howard certainly had a decent enough imagination, and occasionally showed flashes of actually good writing

Anonymous Thu May 1 16:24:20 2014 No.4841138
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>>4838817
I wanted to say A Wrinkle In Time, even though it's adolescent, but two days ago some self-pub pleb who wrote a patently shite fantasy magic whatever was shilling himself in a thread and listed it as one of his favorites. How dare he like something I like. Meg is love. Meg is life.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 1 20:58:56 2014 No.4842173 >>4841127 Really fun stories, I think REH liked to believe he actually was Conan Same with Milius 50 years later

>>	Anonymous Thu May 1 21:06:49 2014 No.4842211 >>4840955 Whenever I see that gif all I can think of is a really angry shitposter

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